Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-10-07
THE CASE OF All FOO.

Ink CASE OF All FOO.
In staid and proper Massachusetts there
is now intense excitement over an afro
cious crime committed by Chinese laun-
dryman. The excitement centers at
Greenfield, the scene of the bestiality of
All Foo. Received by the people of the
town with open arms, treated as man
and brother, taken into church and Sun
day-school, taught in the arts of civiliza-
tion, encouraged to study and learn, and
generally petted by people who have
looked upon the Chinaman in America as
prosecuted for blood's sake this rascally
fellow has rewarded their trustfulness by
entrapping little girls of the community
to the number of dozen or more-who
were sent to his laundry on legitimate
errands-drugging them, and while in this
helpless condition violating these mere
children. To add to the enormity of the
ohense it is now discovered that the little
ones have been, by this beast, infected with
loathsome disease.
No wonder that the people of Green
field gathered to tear the miscreant limb
from limb. That under such terrible
provocation they listened to counsel and
withheld their hands is surprising. For
at best, when the wretch is convicted
he can be imprisoned only for brief term
in penitentiary, where he will live on
better fare, and at greater ease than ever
before known to him. The mob was con-
jured to remember that they were in con-
servatiye, law-abiding Massachusetts,, and
not in the wilds of Western Territories,
and that they could not afford to disgrace
their State by snatching the prisoner from
the law. That we cannot gainsay; mob
violence at any and all times is indefensi-
BILE; the processes of the law are the or
derby means of civilization; the mob and the
lynching party look backward toward bar
barity, and typify disorder and anarchy
The one secures life and property, and
with Judicial calm metes out punishment
to offenders; the other puts in peril every
mans life and possessions and stakes social
order upon the whim of angry passions.
But the law is inadequate to fttingly
punish the crime of All Foo. He will
escape the penalty his monstrous villainy
demands. In his own country, for less
ofiense, he would be tortured to death.
But all future offenders of this order with
us ought to be made to take their lives in
their own hands, when they enter upon
such career. Death is too speedy and
genteel punishment for this class of
criminals; the gallows for such as
these Is too select platform.
hurderers have a right to pro-
test against the agency of their taking of
being degraded to the employment of
breaking the necks of wretches who drug,
violate and disease our defenseless little
girls. What can the laws of Massachusetts
say to the broken-hearted mothers of
Greenfield, whose idols have been contain
mated, and the hearthstones of whose
homes echo to their moaning? Let the
man who reads this and looks upon the
innocent face of the pure girl of ten or
twelve whose soft arms embrace him with
daughters tenderness, fancy, if he can.
fitting punishment for the man-black,
white or brown-who brushes such flowers
Of affection, as did the beastial Chinaman
All Foo, with the child-daughters of
Greenfield
Our dislike for the Chinaman on this
coast, where We know his coarseness for
what it is, and understand his estimate of
females, and his ingrained disregard for
virtue, intensihes our horror over the
Greenfield outrage, and deepens our sym
pathy for the sorrowing mothers whose
babes have been made the victims of ORR
entail lust. We are not to forget, however,
that our own civilization has produced
beasts OF this order, and that men of our
own race have been guilty of similar
crimes. Nevertheless, it is not to be lost
sight of that the coolie Chinaman nnts no
such value upon female virtue as we do
that along the human-freighted rivers
from whose banks lie came, female children
are openly exposed for sale; that the class
of females he brings to our shores are those
born and raised for the most debased prr-
poses.
That the people of Massachusetts
should receive lesson on Chi
nese character will, sorrowful as it is,
not be proftless. They have been
warned against this non-assiuailative i'm
migrant; they have been told over and
again that he is not fit to be taken to their
bosoms or invested with trusts usually re-
posed in those who serve. They have
Knocked US for our advice, and pronounced
our counsel to be the result of passionate
and unressoning prejudice They Will. |
through such bitter experiences as those
of Greenfield, learn that We have not ex-
sggerated or misrcpresented concerning |